And what are the qualities of a good team member?
The role of a sponsor is not to build a business for your team members. A good sponsor will guide their team and show them how to duplicate a successful system. After that, it’s up to the team members to get the job done.
How many times do you hear from some MLM members that they are not succeeding because of their sponsor?
They complain that their sponsor does not respond to emails or give them good guidance. Or they will complain that they haven’t heard from their sponsor since they signed up.
When I hear someone complain about their sponsor, I immediately think that they are not taking any responsibility for their own actions, like a child who needs help with everything.
Anyone who thinks they are not successful because they have what they think is a lousy sponsor is not very interested in building their own business.
If they were, they would find other resources to help them along the way.
The role of a sponsor is not to build the business for you.
That is not your responsibility.
Your responsibility is to guide. It is the responsibility of each new member to read and learn. And the most successful network marketing companies have made it easy to seek help from multiple sources so no one has to rely on their sponsor alone to be successful.
For example, I had a sponsor who wasn’t very active and didn’t do much to help. However, he is a nice guy and we have kept in touch through some social networking sites.
But since he had lost interest in the business and had moved on to other things, he was not really a good sponsor. He even admitted it through one of our online Facebook chats, and we both laughed. Although he is a good guy.
Here’s the thing: You do NOT need a “good” sponsor to be successful in your business!
And if you happened to join an MLM and were assigned someone as a sponsor, you really have no choice as to who your sponsor will be and how active or inactive they will end up being!
You know, whatever business you’re in, we all start out as new team members with a sponsor. Sometimes that sponsor may drop out of the program on their own, leaving you with no sponsor at all.
So what do you do, give up? No.
And if you got to the level of Team Leader is it because you worked for it and used your own brain to find what works for you, not what works for your sponsor, or you just go day in and day out trusting your sponsor to tell you what to do . .
You only have yourself to blame if you go nowhere in your business or quit.
